Technology
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Gardening Taught Me How to Be a Better Programmer
The front of my house faces west, sunset, which means we get a lot of bright hot light from midday towards the early evening, irrespective of the weather. We’re just…
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A bold strategy for Australia’s digital future
This letter has been sent to leaders around the country in an effort to stoke interest in an Australian Linux project, and sparking interest in FOSS support nationally. Dear data…
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Langenium 2012-2025 Retrospective
In 2012, I was playing Eve Online and doing a Level 4 mission. It wasn’t my first one of the night, I’d been grinding trying to get extra ISK (in-game…
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Awesome new techniques for Front End Web Development in 2025
Contents: Introduction So full disclosure – none of these ideas were invented nor introduced this past year, but many of them are still relatively new and incredibly useful so we’re…
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How to implement Blender Principled BSDF Materials in Three.js (Intro)
Achieving realism in computer graphics requires a phenomenal amount of computing power. In order to reduce that workload, 3D graphics uses techniques like Physically Based Rendering (PBR), which simulates the…
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Creating The Next Generation Desktop Environment
At Open Studios we use a couple of tools that only work in Windows and so that’s our default operating system. Using Windows 11 Pro for a while now, we…
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Building A Cool 3D website: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned
I first learned to make websites back in 1999 using Macromedia software like Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. It was a golden age for vibrant interactive experiences that pushed the boundaries…
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Hell-0, World
Hell-0, World O Morning Star, luminous river mouth of all the incandescent streams. Earth Mother enraged by Time, raineth hellfire from below unto the Sky. Nymph dancers of the ash,…
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How to create unique art styles and looks with Stable Diffusion
My last article about generating images using PyTorch feels like it was written three years ago, rather than three months ago. At that time the source code of the tools…
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Using a PyTorch DCGAN for Generating Unique Character and Fashion Silhouettes
As a digital artist I tend to prefer working in vector format and as such I’ve been a keen user of Adobe Illustrator and now Affinity Designer. In the course…